Train your peers

Safe Surgeries peer-to-peer training

Our Safe Surgeries project aims to improve access to healthcare for migrants in vulnerable circumstances by addressing barriers to healthcare in both policy and practice.

Peer-to-peer training modules are designed to be delivered by NHS healthcare professionals and medical students, and aim to empower them to improve their colleagues' understanding of migrant rights to healthcare in England. They should be delivered at trainers' workplaces or universities.

The training covers: migrant entitlement to NHS care; barriers faced by migrants and good practice tips to ensure vulnerable migrants access the healthcare they need. All the information is based on the DoTW's knowledge and experience of supporting patients at our London clinics.

The training pack consists of 1-1.5 hour modules, with slides tailored to primary care, secondary care or general audiences. These are supported by a number of resources, listed below.

All slides and resources are the intellectual property of Doctors of the World UK and shouldn't be shared or used without acknowledgement or in a manner that is not in accordance with the Guidelines for peer-to-peer trainers.

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Recent changes to health policy have made access to healthcare much more difficult for many migrants in the UK, and for many of our patients. To evidence the devastating effect we know these policies are having on many vulnerable people, we're calling on frontline providers to submit anonymous case studies which demonstrate the impacts they see in their daily work.

Responding to calls from our #StopSharing campaign, a cross-party committee of MPs has put the NHS' dangerous data-sharing deal with the Home Office under much-needed scrutiny. We told the committee how the sharing their confidential information makes migrant patients too afraid to access the healthcare they need.

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Recent changes to health policy have made access to healthcare much more difficult for many migrants in the UK, and for many of our patients. To evidence the devastating effect we know these policies are having on many vulnerable people, we're calling on frontline providers to submit anonymous case studies which demonstrate the impacts they see in their daily work.

Responding to calls from our #StopSharing campaign, a cross-party committee of MPs has put the NHS' dangerous data-sharing deal with the Home Office under much-needed scrutiny. We told the committee how the sharing their confidential information makes migrant patients too afraid to access the healthcare they need.

New research from our clinics across Europe describes the plight of individuals who are unable to access healthcare services and shows how healthcare systems are failing excluded people in need of treatment.